Capabilities Vs Assets

There is a common mistake we all do sometimes, and it’s to confuse capabilities and assets when developing an strategy. Assets (brands, facilities, patterns, customer connections, cash…) cannot be center of the strategy of a company. If the assets should be the primary component of a strategy, then any successful company just have to re-invest … Read more

The Journey Onward to digital business

I assisted to a webinar with different content on the digital business. Some of the concepts and materials shared were interesting, but some others were not new. This first picture identifies the components of the digital business: the “things”. It’s nice, and it separates concepts and enable you to see along the time or maturity … Read more

Critical Security Controls

I am not a security expert, and by this reason to read about security aspects is something complex, specially when you want to gain perspective of the area of security it’s being talked. The SANS Institute is a cooperative research and education organization which contains programs for security professionals around the world. They have the … Read more

Program organization and its own transformation

Programs evolve as all in life, mainly because the different phases of a program requires different skills, teams, and resources. We go from a high degree of ambiguity in the inception phase, progressing and gaining shape during the definition, moving to a delivery mode during the execution and “get the job done” during the closing. … Read more

How to play the game, position and move

Position and move are essential information you need to put in place a strategy. The strategy is put in place through attacking and defensive actions. In this case, the customer wants to reduce the number of vendors on IT space. We have classified the different vendors depending if they are tier-1, tier-2, tier-3. The picture … Read more

Behavioral attributes on program management

Cranfield University did a research related to behavioral attributes of the leaders when working on programs. The summary table of this research is added to the Managing Successful Programs book. Attitude and aptitudes of leaders are summarized in a scale from 1 to 4, where 4 represents more awareness and capacity to lead the complexity … Read more

Twitter Vs Facebook

Twitter just announced that they are removing the 140 characters for direct messages. To me as user this means they become a clone of Facebook. Which of the main things you do in Facebook cannot be done in Twitter? Facebook did a move adding the possibility of replying to replies, so the replies are more … Read more

Lotus Notes Workspace

I need to remind this “how to”; when LN client fails after entering the password it is because something weird is happening in the cache. You can remove Cache.NDK and, at least in my case, it worked.

In honour of stupid people

I found this picture in this web, and I personally find it very funny. Things as “this bottle of milk can contain milk” makes me laugh about how stupid human race can be. Legal department will tell you that these type of sentences are here to protect us of potential sues. This culturally comes from … Read more